- Prepares the student with theological criteria and hermeneutic methods necessary to approaching the difficulties of reading the Bible; - Provides the tools for adequately interpreting the biblical text; - Endows skills in the practice of biblical exegesis and criticism, diachronic and synchronic, paying special attention to the document of the Pontifical Biblical Commission: The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church; - Teaches the reading of a biblical text in its historical, geographic, cultural, social, literary and religious contexts and how to deal with the research sources for the field of biblical exegesis.